In our secular age, more people say that faith need proof of God's existence.For a man deeply religious, God is there, and it is not necessary to prove that any man, let alone God.For the atheist there is no God, and a religious man is quite difficult to imagine the scientific evidence to change his point of view.But, nevertheless, the argument goes atheists with the believers for thousands of years, and during that time had developed a system apparatus of evidence in favor of the existence and nonexistence of God.Why should this dispute lasts forever, and the disputants are undergoing the same fiasco?And whether, in this case, these discussions at all?Let's try to figure it out.
Error theologians of the past is that they were trying to prove the existence of the Supreme Power, Supreme Being, First Cause, etc., on the basis of these observations, the material world, and tried to provide scientific evidence for the existence of God.By the way, especially in the Christian tradition has succeeded, since Tertullian, Anselm and Aquinas and ending with Kant.In the Middle Ages philosophy it was considered a "handmaiden of theology," but use the language of theology, philosophy, to prove the existence of God.In 1078 Anselm of Canterbury, speaking for some reason not to men, but to God, leads such an argument to prove the existence of God, His priori: the human mind is the concept of absolute perfection.But if you absolutely perfect being is not present, does not exist in the real world, so it is not absolutely and completely perfect.There is a contradiction, from which Anselm concludes that God exists.Despite the fact that such a priori proof based many theologians, it does not hold the atheists if people in varying degrees of imperfection exist in this real world, it does not mean that there exists a being absolutely perfect.
brilliant scholastic theologian Thomas Aquinas tried to get out of this situation, putting forward his five proofs of God's existence by argument a posteriori.Again, these arguments are based on the study of the material world.The first proof - through movement: everything in this world is moving, for whatever reason.Consequently, there is a real estate engine, that is, God.The second argument - Absolute cause of all the consequences.Nothing created things is not its own cause.So there must be a root cause of all that is God.The third argument - the cosmological: because there is time and there are things in time (that is, when something occurred), it follows that there is a certain timeless essence, causing the time and the existence of things in time and space, that is, God.
But atheists say, after listening to these three arguments are given completely unproven and unscientific premise itself belongs to God the next sequence is not part of it.Even if we assume that there is an entity, completing the chain of ascent to the root cause of the world, and call it God, it does not mean that this substance is endowed with other qualities which are attributed to God, grace, omnipotence, the ability to read the hearts, letsins.The three ontological proof of God's existence gave rise to the Christian theodicy, designed to meet God - Sotvoritelya material world for their evil, which is full of the world.If the good God created our world, why this world is not good?If this world is good, then maybe it did not God?
fourth argument of Thomas - a proof of the degree of perfection is absolute grace, and in this world we are witnessing its smaller manifestations.But the evil - it's not a lack of grace, where did it?We can not all be called maxims of God.And the fifth argument - proof through feasibility: all created for a purpose, and that the ultimate goal - God.
Philosopher E. Kant refutes evidence of the existence of God Thomas Aquinas and pushes its own: as in the human heart there is a requirement of justice and righteousness, goodness, that is, the notion that the world is meaningless, because it does not bring material benefit, henceThese concepts are given to us from the other world, where the "new earth and new heaven," in which righteousness dwells.This concept of God as a moral requirement, the categorical imperative, pushes people to perform good deeds, and gratuitous, and is the main argument of moral proof of God's existence.Because in this world there is no more useless phenomenon than a virtue.
